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Median · #1 26th January 2006, 15:59

Hi.

I read in one of Falko's posts somewhere that the Perfect Setup Fedora Core 3 is basically the same for Fedora Core 2. I have followed that and have got so far, but now I have encountered my first error.

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Now start Postfix, saslauthd, imap and pop3:

chkconfig --levels 235 sendmail off
chkconfig --levels 235 postfix on
chkconfig --levels 235 saslauthd on

works fine.
We then come to

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chkconfig imap on

and I get an error,

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error reading information on service imap: No such file or directory

which is fine as Dovecot was installed instead of imap, so I change this to

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chkconfig Dovecot on

and it seems to be ok.

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chkconfig imaps on
chkconfig ipop3 on
chkconfig pop3s on

all produce the same error.

>>>>> Should I replace these lines with anything or just leave them out?

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/etc/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/init.d/postfix start
/etc/init.d/saslauthd start
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

All seem to work ok apart from

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/etc/init.d/saslauthd start

which throws an error saying

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could not read from startup_pipe

If I just type

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saslauthd start

at the prompt I get an error telling me

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no authentication method specified

and list of options which seems to suggest that saslauthd is there somewhere ready to go but I'm just not giving it the right information. I tried

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saslauthd -a pam

which throws up the message:

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saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : Cannot start saslauthd
saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : could not read from startup_pipe

Obviously I'm missing something here. Would be grateful if someone could help me out.

Thanks in advance

falko · #2 26th January 2006, 17:47

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Originally Posted by Median

>>>>> Should I replace these lines with anything or just leave them out?

Leave them out.

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Originally Posted by Median

All seem to work ok apart from which throws an error saying

Code:

could not read from startup_pipe

If I just type

Code:

saslauthd start

at the prompt I get an error telling me

Code:

no authentication method specified

and list of options which seems to suggest that saslauthd is there somewhere ready to go but I'm just not giving it the right information. I tried

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saslauthd -a pam

which throws up the message:

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saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : Cannot start saslauthd
saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : could not read from startup_pipe

Obviously I'm missing something here. Would be grateful if someone could help me out.

Thanks in advance

Did you do all the steps from http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_se...dora_core_3_p4 ?

What's in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf?
What's the output of

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telnet localhost 25

(this telnet thing is also described on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_se...dora_core_3_p4)?

Median · #3 26th January 2006, 17:54

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Originally Posted by falko

Did you do all the steps from http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_se...dora_core_3_p4 ?

>>>>> Yes, to the letter

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Originally Posted by falko

What's in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf?

>>>>>

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pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login

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Originally Posted by falko

What's the output of

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telnet localhost 25

(this telnet thing is also described on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_se...dora_core_3_p4)?

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[root@median root]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 median.x.example.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo localhost
250-median.x.example.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME